... To bring up young men from college with no
knowledge of the country in which the great drama of modern politics and
national life is now being worked out,--who are ignorant of a country
like America, but who, whether it be for good or for evil, must exercise
more influence in this country than any other class,--to bring up the
young destitute of such knowledge, and to place them in responsible
positions in the government is, I say, imperilling its best interests;
and earnest remonstrances ought to be made against such a state of
education by every public man who values in the slightest degree the
future welfare of his country." He concluded his speech by saying,--"Do
you suppose it possible, when the knowledge of the principles of
political economy has elevated the working classes, and when that
elevation is continually progressing, that you can permanently exclude
the whole mass of them from the franchise? It is their interest to set
about solving the problem, and, to prevent any danger, they ought to do
so without further delay."

The speech of Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, after the death
of Mr. Cobden, must be familiar to all readers. It came to round the
measure of his eulogy, which had been sung in the East and in the West,
in the North and in the South, and at length was heard even from the
heart of Nazareth. We will not quote here the words of England's late
minister; we would only urge those who love the study of nobility to
read the Life of Richard Cobden, remembering such men "are set here for
examples."

_The Human Hair, and the Cutaneous Diseases which affect it: together
with Essays on Acne, Sycosis, and Cloasma._ By B. C. PERRY,
Dermatologist. New York: James Miller.

This is the first book of its kind which has been published, and it is
well calculated to do good service in many ways. The author proposed to
himself in its preparation so to present all topics which relate to the
hair and scalp in health and disease, that his treatise should not only
possess value as being founded upon a just discrimination of
physiological principles, and interest for the general reader by reason
of its familiarity of manner and the _ana_ by which the subject should
be illustrated, but also be of service to all who care to understand the
nature of an important part of the physical system.

Upon the whole, this purpose has been well carried into effect; and
every chapter of the comely volume bears witn